Rise, pasta and goat meat are expensive. Let us change the diet. I like it.

That point is debatable whether the debt relief is real or imagined. Time will tell, but to argue that " Since when is media free to write whether ever they wish? Someone is deciding articles and copy pasting for all kind of reasons. Besides, media every where do self censoring to protect the values of their readers and promote what the majority of the citizens hold as valuable. Or what those who own them decide to be new worthy. Let my give you an example: In this town we have a large number of Somalis graduating from the local universities compared to other larger groups who might have 10 times the population. Whether they are Indians, Philipino or Africans. Yet, You will never read that wonderful news from the local papers , evening news or feature documentaries including the public Broadcasting agencies. Yet, if one of our youth makes a mistake , it is a headline with all kind of connotations. It is a given thing. But, we expect a Somali website to at least feature our moderate successes. There are well known sites and papers who believe that the "fourth world Somalis" must be expelled, mocked or abused. If a self hating Somali promotes that kind of talking points, then we will point out as usual. I Have seen Hiiraan online promote the dismemberment of Somalia and other anti unity articles throughout the years, and I am pist of about that.

They crawl through the internet and pick anti Somalia stories and any hit jobs or targeted articles against those who are helping Somalia like Turkey. We are all aware that Turkey is targeted by the western media for many reasons. While Erdogan is their major target for many reasons , they also oppose the idea of Turkey speaking out against injustices among the developing nations and persecuted Muslims. Istanbul’s New Mayor Outlines Gross Mismanagement Under Erdogan’s Allies WWW.HIIRAAN.COM The declaration by the mayor was his first real challenge to the president and the powerful vested interests around him. I do not mind to highlight corruption in major cities whether it is Istanbul, Toronto or Boston, but there are always comparisons and priorities. Yet, despite their big headlines, most of the article was against the infrastructure boom in Turkey that transformed the country. Some of you probably heard about the $13 billion dollar Boston underground tunnel which took more than a decade. Here the article is complaining about building things: "The really big money was in real estate and infrastructure development, and the members of the incoming administration found evidence of what they had suspected for years.Among the biggest prizes were an extension to Istanbul’s new airport, a high-speed rail link to the capital, Ankara, and Istanbul’s road and metro tunnels, each worth billions of dollars" This are major projects that lifted and made Turkey to the first world like infrastructure. Building huge infrastructure is how China is becoming the leading economy in the world. From 2005-2015, China had built a coal fired plant in every single month to electrify the country while ignoring the climate change music. This little clip shows some of the major infrastructure in Turkey centring Istanbul. WE know the New York Times and others are routing for the new mayor of Istanbul , but what is Hiiraan Online routing for. In most city halls around the world, corruption is the norm not the exception, al least Istanbul could show something for the money they spent. here another nuisance about the public and private debt taken by the city of Istanbul: "Istanbul and its subsidiaries were in debt to the tune of 14 billion lira, roughly $2 billion, when he took over in June, Mr. Imamoglu said on Monday. The municipality’s subsidiary companies were paralyzed by tax debts and effectively bankrupt, he added." Almost 20% of the population of Turkey lives within the Istanbul region. The 15 million people of the region also welcome another 10 million visitors per year. You need huge infrastructure to accommodate these large number of tourists. Here in this town of western Canada, we are less than a million with public debt of $2.5 billion dollars and nothing to show for it. Here in Alberta, highways are built without bridges first, and as soon as they finish traffic gridlock begins; then have to go back and build bridges. Then within two years the two lane highway becomes parking lot when an accident happens. Rather than take advantage of the open land and do the job well for the first time , they come back and add another lane because contracts are awarded to companies that connected to the city hall. Our light rail trains (LRT) are crossing major intersections and creating more gridlock than alleviate traffic. A billion dollar is wasted by the city using third rate engineers. I wish the Istanbul engineers to come here and help us built something special with billions wasted. It is all about perspective. Two days ago Hiiraan Online reprinted story from from a Washington Free Bacon which stated that " Ilhan Omar celebrated passage of a bill she voted against". It was another lazy Hiiraan online work copy pasting right wing talking points. If they spent little time and researched the issue they would have reached a different conclusion. This huge omnibus appropriations bill was carrying a lot of things. Congress and the executive had add both popular and unpopular bills to make it pass. It is called Omnibus bill, which means a" bill is a proposed law that covers a number of diverse or unrelated topics". There were bills that would change the illegality of the Palestinian occupied territory under a bill pushed by Mike Pompeo and Trump. It would make building occupied territories legal under international law. This and many other bills forced many progressive democrats including ILhan Omar to vote against the bill. Yet, that doesn't mean congresswoman Ilhan did not push the Somali debt relief amendments. Everyone knows that the amendments of the debt relief was left behind just two weeks ago and American diplomats in Somalia complained and pointed out the consequences of not concluding the Somali debt relief. That is when ILhan and others from Minnesota congressional districts and Senate democratic candidate Amy klobuchar pushed the amendment to be added. It is the complicated way of which American congress maneuvers to add amendments and pork and barrel projects to budget and appropriation bills. I won't expect much let alone fact checking from a keyboard wanna be journalist from Hiiraan Online . In the era of fake news , all you do is copy paste things and present as news of afct and some do better than others. Yet, it boggles the mind that a Somali especially from Hiiraan whose flood ravaged province is being helped by Turkey as we speak will go out of his way and bash the Turkish nation. Hageed ku aragtay qof weelkii wax lagu siiyey ku xaaraya. It is becoming difficult for some somalis to differentiate between the ruling regime of the day and the interest of the nation. Some were even upset that a debt relief has been awarded to Somalia. Leaders come and ago but the nation must gain and get back its institutional connections around the world including world financial centres.

You are lying again. If you want to discuss middle school (officially called intermediate schools in Somali gov statistics), I am more than happy to oblige (spoilers: Awdal does not fair well here either). Anyway: Sh. Dhexe (58 schools) Banaadir (53 schools) Juba Hoose (51 schools) Woqooyi Galbeed (42 schools) Juba Dhexe (39 schools) Bay (39 schools) Hiiraan (39 schools) Bari (29 schools) Gedo (24 schools) Galgaduud (22 schools) Togdheer (20 schools) Sanaag (18 schools) Awdal (18 schools) Mudug (16 schools) Bakool 10 schools) Sool (8 schools) Nugaal (8 schools) This time Awdal placed 13th nationally (). You need to stop this, the evidence is pretty conclusive that you lied. You are just embarrassing the good people of Awdal now. WAryaa bilaa edeb, The above forgeries are from your former list of the education exchange I had with you. Unless you explain how you forged this so called official Somali ministry of education list which gave Shabeelaha Dhexe 58 schools, Jubada Hoose 39 andAwdal 13, I will never believe your factiry of forgeries, Case closed.

Didn't I tell you long ago you got your own press and you pull forgeries from your a... This summer , when you copy pasted about Jawhar having 7 high schools or Shabeelaha Dhexe having 47 schools total and showed in one of your copy paste forgeries, I no longer trust your so called official forgeries. If someone lies and posts forgeries about basic things like how many middle schools Jowhar has , certainly he will do again on other things. By the way, Lasqoray has been a district with fishing industries and vibrant population throughout eighties. We all know it like what we had breakfast for this morning. You can falsify things and lie to the kids here , but I do not believe anything you post here. Now who is worthy of Degmo today. The village of Garadag or the big towns of SAnaag Bari: Hadaaftimo and Dhahar. It is well known 45% of Sanaag belong to the the Makharis, 30 percent to East Burco 10% to Sool community and 15% to east Burco.

You can quote Xidigta as much as you like, but Laasqoray has been district in the eighties. In fact Gobolka woqoyi Galbeed had Qaab-dhismeedkii Gobollada & Degmooyinka Soomaaliya (1960-1969) A-Gobolka Hargeysa 5 degmo Hargeysa Berbera Gebilay Boorame Saylac B -Gobolka Burco 8 Degmo Burco Ood weyne Sheekh Buuhoodle Ceerigaabo Laas qoray laas caanood C- Gobolka Majeerteeniya 8 Degmo Boosaaso Qardho Isku-shuban Bandarbeyle Caluula Qardho Garoowe Eyl D- Gobolka Ex Mudug 7 Degmo Gaalkacyo Hobyo Jerriiban Xarardheere Dhuusamareeb Ceelbuur Ceeldheer E- Gobolka Hiiraan: 2 Degmo Beled weyne Buulo Burte F- Gobolladii Ex-Banaadir: 9 Degmo Xamar Balcad Jowhar Cadale Afgooye W/Weyn Marka Qoryooley Baraawe G- Gobolka Jubada Sare: 6 Degmo Baydhabo Buur-Hakaba Xuddur Diin-soor Baar-dheere Luuq H- Gobolka Jubada Hoose 4 Degmo Kismaayo Jamaame Jilib Af-madoow Isku dar 49 Degmo Qaab-dhismeedkii Gobollada iyo Degmooyinka Soomaaliya 1969–1991kii) A-Gobolka Awdal 4 Degmo Baki Boorama Lug-haye Seylac B-Gobolka Waqooyi Galbeed 3 Degmo Hargeysa Berbera Gebilay (Cadaadley) was added later. C-Gobolka Tog-dheer 4 Degmo Burco Buuhoodle Ood-weyne Sheikh D-Gobolka Sool 4 Degmo Laas-caanood Taleex Ceynabo Xuddun E-Gobolka Sanaag 4 Degmo Ceerigaabo Laas-qoray Ceel-afwen Baran F-Gobolka Bari 8 Degmo Boosaaso Bandar-beyla Qardho Isku-shuban Qandala Caluula Baar-gaal Xaafuun G-Gobolka Nugaal 4 Degmo Garowe Eyl Dan-gorayo Bur-tinle H-Gobolka Mudug 5 Degmo Gaal-kacyo Hobyo Xarar-dheere Jarriiban Goldogob I-Gobolka Gal-gaduud 7 Degmo Dhuusa-mareeb Ceel-buur Ceel-dheer Cadaado Cabuud-waaq Gal-hareeri Balan-bal J-Gobolka Hiiraan 5 Degmo Beled-weyne Buulo-burte Jalalaqsi Matabaan Maxaas K-Gobolka Shabeellaha Dhexe 7 Degmo Jowhar Bal-cad Cadale Aadan yabaal Mahaddaay Ruun-nirgood War-sheikh L-Gobolka Shabeellaha Hoose 9 Degmo Marka Af-gooye Wanle-weyn Qoryo-leey Baraawe Sablaale Kurtun-waareey Dajuuma Aw-dheegle M-Gobolka Jubbada dhexe 3 Degmo Bu’aale Jilib Saakoow N-Gobolka Jubada Hoose 5 Degmo Kismaayo Jamaame Af-madow Badhaadhe Xagar O-gobolka Baay 5 Degmo Baydhabo Buur-hakaba Diin-soor Qansax-dheere Berdaale P-gobolka Bakool 6 Degmo Xuddur Tayeegloow Waa-jid Ceel-berde Yeed Rab-dhuurre Q-gobolka Gedo 6 Degmo Garba-haarreey Luuq Baar-dheere Beled-xaawo Dooloow Ceel-waaq R-Gobolka Banaadir 17 Degmo Xamar-weyne Xamar-jajab Boon-dheere Waaberi Wada-jir Dharkeyn-leey Hodon Howl-wadaag War-dhiigleey 10- Shibis C/casiis 12- Kaaraan 13- Huriwaa 14- Dayniile 16- Yaaq-shiid 17- Shingaani Some like Dhankarley was added for the last few years.

Sanaag has four district since before 1991. Ceerigaabo Ceel Afweyn Badhan Laasqoray. Ceerigaabo was always shared. While Badhan and Laasqoray are exclusively Maakhir community towns. Now Sanaag has even more districts than 1991. While Garadag became a district, there are also big districts in SAnaag Bari like Hadaaftimo and Dhahar. If you measure by today's population centres, east SAnaag has four major districts. Dhahar, Laasqoray, Badhan and Hadaaftimo while they share Ceerigaabo. By the way, being named district by Somali administration whether it was military government or the current one is not the best way to measure towns or districts. Here is dhahar, by far the best landscape in the North. Below Hadaaftimo.

He is a good man. Waa nin bisil. The special interest groups and the corrupt elite might not need the government, but the regular people need a government that serves their interest. Everyone used to say that Laftagareen was a puppet of the Nabad iyo Nolol, yet the man showed his independence and integrity by opposing the illogical "one man one vote" pushed by the federal government. He is much better than the killer Mukhtar Robow who has blood in his hands and way better than the corrupt Shariif Sakiin. MMA South West is lucky to have this decent man.

Here is the great deputy mayor of Hargeisa. Madaxweynahayagu diyaaraduu wax ku dhex akhriya.

Saaxiib, WE are saying the same thing. Sending hundred dollars through the phone will not help no one to establish anything. In Bangladesh and other places, Microlending supposed to help poor people and women to make small trades and create jobs for them. This one is totally different.

Where is Suldaanka, who kept talking about Berbera airport and new airline flights? Kii Hargeisa ayaa in uu xidhmo ku dhaw. Timirtii horeba sab loo waa.

By the way, would like to add that one of guys mentioned that since local and regional leaders became corrupt and could no longer deliver, the UN agencies are giving aid directly to people. He might have a point since no one will build community houses, dig water wells or hospital.

In Woqoyi Galbeed it is called "Jaq oo Jiif". Suck and sleep. It is a new UN program that sends money through the phone directly to Somalis in rural and small town areas. A friend of mine from the coastal Awdal area told a group us last week about this UN program that send up to $200 dollars to Somali families while sitting in their rural homes and small towns. I thought it was a joke, but it is true. Yesterday, another friend from Mudug told me a phone call he received from someone in Gaalkacayo who confirmed the same thing going on in Puntland. People are discussing this new welfare from the UN . Did you receive your "Jaq oo Jiif" money? is the a common thing now. There were already reports about people receiving stable foods like corn, sorghum, oil and flour during the rainy season where people are better off economically or willing to cultivate some of their staple foods , but nowhere to be seen during the drought years. During the drought year, there was little help from these agencies. Folks, a lot of very strange things are happening in Somalia. I used to hear stories about foreign aid crops flooding the market when the local farmers were ready to sell their local crops, but I always considered these things as an exaggeration or conspiracy theory. For example, in the Awdal region and other places, because of the cyclones of last year and unusually high autumn rain people and livestock are doing well, yet we hear these welfare aid flooding the land like never before which keeps local people from working the field while encouraging them chewing Qat and becoming idle. Another huge problem is the flow of drugs and alcohol in Somaliland. If you check the news from WAjaale, Borama ., Burco, Hargeisa and between a large number of Marijuana, Hashish , alcohol and other drugs have been confiscated by police. Some of these drugs are not even used within Ethiopia itself. When I enquired about these things, some people say it is companies ( Shirkado) who are involved. Personally, I do not believe that a Somali would set up a corporation and invest tens of thousands of dollars to smuggle these drugs knowing the chances of being busted are as high as 75% of the times being busted by locals. Also, I do not thing a small contraband runner could absorb these loses which is happening frequently and keep doing it again and again. WE already have daily import of Khat from Ethiopia worth $500 million a year in Somaliland alone. In Kenya, the Meru Khat brings close to $400,000 dollars a day. Imagine a nation spending close to $700 million dollars to drugs that harm its people legally and no one is debating about its health effects or draining of its economy. This is what happens when your people are led by criminals, warlords and Khar trares. If this trend of using Ethiopian drugs , chewing Khat , coupled with Jaq of Jeef money transfer from the UN continues, we might end up a nation of misfits filled with Khat and drug addict , coupled with lazy rural people waiting handouts and puritanical extremists who would kill those who disagree with them. Some of us in the diaspora might feel relieved of the burden of sending money to our families back home since the UN is taking over the money transfer system using phones, yet we could lose the whole society and become dependents. This idea of becoming dependents is a top to down phenomena that starts from the national leaders all the way down to the rural community. Have you seen the nice police cruisers , the marching bands with the nice uniform and the non stop airplane rides around the globe? It is all paid by others. And we are calling the supervisors of these foreign money from the UN as Somali president, Jubbaland president or Somaliland president and so on. I have been in North America over 25 years and I had never seen anyone who got rich of welfare, or anyone whose live got better because of handouts. In fact, those who get government assistance remain always poor and dependent. Some might even think that they were smart by siphoning few dollars from the system not knowing the bigger things that lay beyond the few dollars. Have you ever seen a single mayor in somaliland with yearly budget? Most of them were either Khat traders or local party operatives who had done nothing meaningful in life. City documents could be forged by anyone and unfinished land disputes continue for twenty years. Folks, this are the legacy of the Somali rebels who after 30 years of pretending to be a government in empty buildings with no governments business to conduct. In MOgadishu we got a group of business and political class sucking billions a year for unending project. And the marching band plays on. In Somaliland, They wake up in the morning and the try to sell any empty blot of land, a library or a park. Since they sold everything that has a value in towns and cities, now the are off to the rural land to sell stones and mountains to the Chinese or Emirati criminals who have no human decency. This are the leaders of today. Isma doorin gaakaan diriyo daarta kii galaye.

Can you believe hundreds of vehicles were shown off while the streets of Mogadishu are unsafe and with no credible patrol. The so called international community had thrown hundreds of millions of dollars for these toys . The Somali police of the past never had these kind of armored vehicles. No wonder this town sucking up billions of foreign aid Now we know why the Mogadishu politicians do not want a working government, because this gravy train of foreign aid will end if the rule of law comes back.

If the so called " debt relief" cannot proceed without Jubbaland or Hir-Shabeelle signing off, then it is not even worth on the paper it's written. It shows Beesha Lixaad calling the shots not the president of the republic. Why they keep lying to us. We are not children, please tell us that we are in trusteeship under the UN. According to the international community, they are all equal in their eyes. It looks Ahmed Madoobe has survived and ready to out wait Nabad iyo Nolol for one more year. The Nairobi based bessha lixaad had visited Hargeisa for the hundredth time to debate with Faysal waraabe and Biixi. Last time the quarrel was disbanding or keeping the election commission, and now it is all about disbanding the new one voted by the parliament and recalling the old one. Ila meereysda Hargeisa laga sheegayeyba waxa ay ka timid kuwan beesha caalamka la yidhaahdo.

Tilamook, Saaxiib we like your presence here in SOL. Baryahan xageed ka dhacday? I heard that in Somalia there is tradition that they will never re-elect a president which means Hassan and Farmaajo could both lose. I am just thinking what could be.......

Waryaa Talaabo, Doodan waan soo xidhaynaa, laakin hal aan kuu sheego. Major components of the religion , IImaan and worship will not be possible without the Hadith and actions of the Prophet. The Qur'aan says establish prayers, but doesn't explain how it should be performed. Or hw another pillar of the Deen like fasting is done without the showing of the Prophet, or how Hajj another obligation is performed without the Hadith. You can't worship your lord without knowing how to perform Wudu or clean yourself without Hadith. Even to understand the Qur'aan you must know when the Ayah was revealed or in which contest.

Turkey might be unhappy with Farmaajo , but not with the crazy and outlandish reasons professor OO mentioned. In our side of the world, we don't care about these useless negotiations. These talks were nothing but a racket to make some cash. It worked for Ahmed Siilaanyo, but it doesn't work anymore. Che, The Sool/Sanaag region is intended to reduce the violence in the east. Not only the northern H..ti but the Sanaag Habro might join them. It will cool down the unending Ceel-Af Weyn conflict, finish off the Caare rebel group and remove both somaliland and Puntland from the flash points of Tukaraq, Sool and Sanaag. I wouldn't add Togdheer in this new region. The Makhiris will lead the new region, the Habro ( West Burco) will be vice president and the dysfunctional Garaad community will be the parliament speaker. It could be done, but Farmaajo is afraid of being accused of interfering with tribal issues, or destabilizing Somaliland and Puntland while they are all aware that the region is already unstable and needs new realignment. I am from the west side of Somaliland and for us Sanaag is a foreign land. Even Muuse Biixi and Faysal Waraabe privately said, " Sanaag iyada Soomaliland u baahane anagu uma baahnin". If I were Farmaajo I would do in heartbeat. They are accusing him all kind of things without lifting a finger. These Nabad Iyo Nolol fools are spending $20 million to set up the outlaws of Galmudug who are not even interested the so called Galmudug region , yet they can not spare few millions to create one of the biggest regions within the republic. By far Sanaag is one of the biggest regions in Somalia.1/3 of Somaliland belongs to Sanaag. If you add Sool , you got the second biggest region after Puntland. And by the way, Sanaag and Sool are much richer than Puntland it self both in terms of agriculture, livestock, minerals and hydrocarbons. Haven't you guys heard about the gold rush in Sanaag? By carving out these region both the two corrupt regions of Somalia -Puntland and Somaliland--who are stagnant economically and socially will be orphans. After that, you have to negotiate with Togdheer, Woqoyi Galbeed and Awdal, the three regions that formed and voted the so called Somaliland. These were the ones who voted for the referendum of 1999. Walaahi, you could take over the whole country without firing one single bullet. Ah, biciidkaan dili doon, subagiisa ma dhami.

Undercover agents could patrol the streets and follow every suspicious activity. We talked about it long ago. Better late than never. The most important aspect terror prevention is controlling the flow of money. Stop this deadly phone banking called Zaad , E Dahabshiil or whatever name they have. Let the killers make the long walk and meet their financiers in daylight. Telephone money transfer is the easiest way to hire killers anonymously. What I know is this government or those before them can not tough the big fish --the so called somali telecom. The government themselves use their services for many different reasons and could not touch the. it is the hand that feeds them. Man, we need a tough leader to crush the sacred cows of Somalia.

They are not police but a bunch if Qat addict criminals deputized by their clan. If the Liyuu police crosses to Wajaale and shoots people in day light like it happened in Alaybaday, they will hide and disappear.

Well, uncle Sam is printing money left and right. The defence budget alone is close to 800 billion this year .. One billion debt relief and another few million to make up to date is a pocket change but we are happy about ii. The strange thing is no one should be asking somalia to pay anything at this stage.

This is a good move. This will allow Somalia to enter the international systems like the Swift banking system. It will allow in the future for Somali Hawala to use direct wire transfer money from bank to bank. A week or so ago, there was a worry among the American diplomats that the Somali debt relieve will not be added among the appropriation bills within the huge American budget. I think our sister Ilhan Omar has done great job. We should be sending her gain to congress. She really represents us in America. Can you imagine those so called UN monitoring group in Nairobi even hacked the emails of the finance minister to prevent the debt relief. We must consider these UN vultures in Nairobi as our enemies who want to get rich of misery.

We welcome even the cyclones. They might do some damage, but they are leaving behind plenty of water. We had droughts for the last five years, and finally we are blessed. It looks we are doing something right.

One more thing, we have to read and found out who wrote the curriculum. I bet it's one of those Nairobi based NGOs. We want to see the history and social study part.